Customize webhook alerts from Radarr, Sonarr, and similar apps

Reformats plain notifications from Radarr, Sonarr, and similar apps into clean, custom Discord alerts.

How the work actually flows

It branches. Exactly one path is taken.

Pattern: Exclusive Choice (4) · Simple Merge (5)

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Starts itA stepAn outside serviceOne path onlyPaths rejoinResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
Messaging & NotificationsAPI & Webhook Integration
Connects
DiscordRadarrSonarrBazarr

The problem it solves

Your automated apps send notifications, but the default messages are cluttered and hard to scan at a glance. You want a clean, consistent alert format across every tool without changing each one individually.

Who it fits

Teams or operators running several self-hosted apps that need clear, uniform alert messages.

How it works

  1. An app like Radarr or Sonarr sends a webhook notification when something happens
  2. The system reads the notification data and checks what type of event it is
  3. It reformats the message into a clean, minimal layout
  4. The finished alert is sent to your Discord channel
What you get

Clean alerts instead of raw notifications

You get clean, uniform Discord alerts whenever Radarr, Sonarr, or similar apps send a notification.

What you get

A clean, consistently formatted alert posted to Discord for every connected app.

What you need

A Discord account with a channel webhook and the apps sending the original notifications.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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